North Georgia Web Design

A short history (probably similar many others) - I got into the web development and SEO  business by accident.  I learned about making web sites and marketing them the old fashioned way.  If I didn’t get my website looking the way I wanted it to, and perhaps even more importantly, if I couldn’t get it under people’s noses that might be interested in it - I was hosed.  So I learned.  It’s not like there is a shortage of people talking about SEO, SEM, and web site design  every day on the web.  It’s an ongoing event! More so, you’d think there was a de facto standard for editing HTML, PHP, Javascript, etc.

Therein is my gripe.  When I got into web development, people kept telling me to get Dreamweaver.  So, I’ve used Dreamweaver now for several years now, and I’ve used it on several different version of Windows - XP, XP Pro, 98 (I think early on), and Vista.  By far, Vista performance has been the worst.  I could deal with the sluggishness, but the FTP performance is awful, and I just can’t handle it any more. Dreamweaver has it’s strong points, but it is expensive  (even to update), and that craptacular FTP performance is for the birds.

So onto other products - I think!  Here are a couple I am looking at:

• PhpED - seems relatively inexpensive and it has some good buzz about it on the web.
• Zend Studio for Eclipse - From people that know PHP inside out.  However the latest iteration of the IDE has not gotten such fabulous reviews.

I’ll report back after a few days with the trial downloads of each.

~Dan Elliott
North Georgia Web Development Blog